Evaluating 'No Child Left Behind'
Linda Darling-Hammond : The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.
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David Corn on George Tenet, Christopher Hayes on taxes, Thomas Palley on the flaws of Rubinomics.
Articles
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Responses to Darling-Hammond
Pedro Noguera, Velma L. Cobb & Deborah Meier : The second part of our forum on the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.
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The Flaws in Rubinomics
Thomas Palley : Economic policy centered on a balanced budget will destroy what's left of FDR's New Deal.
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Look Who's Taxing
Christopher Hayes : Weary of tax cuts for the rich, state politicians are rethinking their aversion to tax-and-spend.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Showdown on the War
: Despite the Administration's crude and dishonest attacks on efforts to end the war, Congressional Democrats can't back down now.
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George Tenet's Evasions
David Corn : His new memoir proves how hard it is to tell the truth about oneself but how easy it is to blame others.
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Yeltsin's (Real) Legacy
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Don't believe the glowing obituaries: Boris Yeltsin's legacy was to de-democratize Russia.
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The Chutzpah Industry
Jon Wiener : Alan Dershowitz is at it again, campaigning to deny tenure to a DePaul University professor who criticized him.
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Dems Tangled in Netroots
Ari Melber : Working For Us, a new coalition of unions and Internet activists, seeks to reform the Democratic Party from the ground up.
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Scenes From Hell
Lynn Randolph : An apocalyptic vision of the Bush Administration, from Houston artist Lynn Randolph.
Reviews
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poetry
Revolutionary Devotion
Roberto González Echevarría : Communism, Catholicism and radical Modernism meet on the dissecting table of César Vallejo's poetry.
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Infantile Liberalism
Russell Jacoby : In a new book on consumer culture, Benjamin Barber argues that commercialism encourages adults to behave like children.
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poem
Discovery/The Nation '07 Prizewinners
Four previously unpublished poets are honored as winners of Discovery/The Nation '07, the annual Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of The Unterberg Poetry Center.
Columns
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DEADLINE POET
Another Exasperating Account of the Bunker
Calvin Trillin : Sinking Tenet's "slam dunk."
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
The Post-Imus Conundrum
Eric Alterman : Liberals prefer to ignore that when it comes to verbal violence, white radio shock jocks are given the same pass as gangsta rappers.
Web
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Scary Movie: Captivity's Ad Campaign
Annabelle Gurwitch : I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?
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TruthDig
The Scum Also Rises
Robert Scheer : How else to explain why arrogant incompetents like Paul Wolfowitz rose to power in the Bush Administration?
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A Peaceful Mother's Day
Robert Greenwald : Mother's Day was originally conceived to recognize the power of women to be instruments of peace.
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Better to Be a Chimpanzee
Barbara Ehrenreich : To qualify for charity, a homeless Austrian chimp has petitioned the courts to be granted human status. If he wins, expect a surge of humans going over to the other side.
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Disseminate Information, Protect Democracy
Teresa Stack : Unless the US Postal Service reverses its steep increases in bulk-mailing rates to favor large corporate publishers, the future of small magazines is grim.
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Lender Bender: New York's Attorney General testifies on the student loan scandal
New York's Attorney General testifies on the student loan scandal.
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Living a Positive Life
William Brawner is 26 years old, HIV positive, and he is changing the way you look at AIDS.
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Student Loan Abuse: Misleading directions steer Florida A&M students to two favored lenders
Misleading directions steer Florida A&M students to two favored lenders.
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Squeezed Out: Middle-class students can't afford private colleges
Middle-class students can't afford private colleges.
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Hip-Hop's E-Z Scapegoats
Dave Zirin & Jeff Chang : There's a big difference between the misogynous hip-hop produced by big media and the hip-hop that moves a generation.
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Spinning Hillary Centrist
Ari Berman : How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest corporations?
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Young America: A new New Deal
A new New Deal.
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Being a Radical Doula: How pro-choice advocacy and birth activism go hand in hand
How pro-choice advocacy and birth activism go hand in hand.
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America's Idiotic Political Debates
Nicholas von Hoffman : All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?
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Is There Freedom After Hip-Hop?
Hip-hop has influenced nearly every art form today, but has it been able to liberate? Artists, musicians and intellectuals reflect on the past and the future of hip-hop.
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Heroes in Razorblade City
A trio of Portland rappers put their boots to the ground and educate the next generation in the art of socially conscious hip-hop.
Cover design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
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